Interviews

How to Heal Our Divides conducts many video interviews about new books related to this topic. You can view them below or subscribe to our YouTube channel. We also have recorded interviews with many of the contributors to our How to Heal Our Divides books – you can view those here. Finally, we also record our book discussions – you can view them here.

Recent Interviews

Featured Interviews

  • David E. Fitch – “Reckoning with Power: Why the Church Fails When It’s on the Wrong Side of Power”
  • Bruce Reyes Chow – “Everything Good about God is True: Choosing Faith”
  • Terence and Zion Lester – “Zion Learns to See: Opening Our Eyes to Homelessness”
  • Susan K. Williams Smith – finding your next calling
  • Parker J. Palmer – “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” and “On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old” and how they can help in one’s discernment and finding your next calling.
  • Sarah Bessey – “Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith” and a conversation about finding your next calling
  • Jeff Munroe – “Telling Stories in the Dark: Finding healing and hope in sharing our sadness, grief, trauma, and pain”
  • Judith Reifsteck – “Memoried and Storied: Healing Our Shared History of Racial Violence”
  • Ellen Armour – “Seeing and Believing: Religion, Digital Visual Culture, and Social Justice”
  • Dorcas Cheng-Tozun – “Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways”
  • Carey Newman – for Walter Brueggemann’s “Ancient Echoes: Refusing the Fear-Filled, Greed-Driven Toxicity of the Far Right”
  • Michael Ashford – finding your calling, the psychology of conflict communication, and how journalism can change to be more effective
  • Jennifer Grant – we discuss Open Books, Raising Kids for Good, and Find Your Next Calling
  • Paul Angone – “Listen to Your Day: The Life-Changing Practice of Paying Attention”
  • Sheila Beckford and Michelle Ledder – “Doing Anti-Racist Business: Dislodging and Dismantling Racism with the 4REALS”
  • Therese Taylor-Stinson – “Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter”
  • Tambry Harris – “Awakening the Light: A Survivors to Thrivers Going-Forward Story” and “Stop the Silence: Thriving After Childhood Sexual Abuse”
  • Jennifer Grant – “Finding Calm in Nature: A Guide for Mindful Kids”
  • Caroline Beidler – “Downstairs Church: Finding Hope in the Grit of Addiction and Trauma Recovery“
  • Lerita Coleman Brown – “What Makes You Come Alive-A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman”
  • Shane Claiborne – “Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person”
  • Mary-Frances Winters – “Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change”
  • Miguel de la Torre – “Resisting Apartheid America: Living the Badass Gospel“
  • Otis Moss III – “Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times”
  • Wajahat Ali – “Go Back To Where You Came From: And, Other Helpful Recommendations on How To Become American”
  • Tim Muldoon and Mack McCarter – “How to Remake the World Neighborhood by Neighborhood”
  • Kenneth W. Wheeler – “US: The Resurrection of American Terror”
  • Catherine Meeks – “The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial Healing”
  • Lucretia Berry – “Teaching for Justice and Belonging: A Journey for Educators and Parents”
  • Michelle Sanchez – “Color-Courageous Discipleship”, “Color-Courageous Discipleship Student Edition”, and the picture book, “God’s Beloved Community”
  • Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew – “Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Memoir of Bisexuality and Spirit”
  • Karen González – “Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in Our Christian Response to Immigration”
  • Brandan Robertson – “Dry Bones and Holy Wars: A Call for Social and Spiritual Renewal ”
  • Mitali Perkins – “The Story of Us”
  • Miguel Escobar – “The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today”
  • Jennifer Garcia Bashaw – “Scapegoats: The Gospel Through the Eyes of Victims”
  • Sabrina Chan and La Thao – “Learning Our Names: Asian American Christians on Identity, Relationships, and Vocation”
  • Valerie Brown – “Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace”
  • Angela Denker – “Red State Christians: A Journey into White Christian Nationalism and the Wreckage It Leaves Behind”
  • Damon Garcia – “The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus”
  • John Noltner – “Portraits of Peace: Searching for Hope in a Divided America“
  • Willie Dwayne Francois III – “Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome Our Inaction on Race”
  • Grace Ji-Sun Kim – “Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women”
  • Karen Tibbals – “Persuade, Don’t Preach: Restoring Civility across the Political Divide”
  • Patty Krawec – “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future”
  • Shannon Kearns – “In The Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey With Scripture”
  • Kevin Nye – “Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness”
  • Paul Miller – “The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism”
  • Amy Kenny – “My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church”
  • Sharei Green, Beckah Selnick, and Nikki Faison – “God’s Holy Darkness”
  • Clarence Shuler and Gary Chapman – “Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships: How You Can Help Heal Racial Divides, One Relationship at a Time”
  • Michael Granzen – “Breaking Through the Plate-Glass Window—Prophetic Fragments: On Doing Justice and Loving Kindness in a Time of Reckoning”
  • Rohadi Nagassar – “When We Belong: Reclaiming Christianity on the Margins“
  • Randy Woodley – “Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth”
  • Brandon Wrencher and Venneikia Samantha Williams – “Liberating Church: A 21st Century Hush Harbor Manifesto”
  • Idelette McVicker – “Recovering Racists: Dismantling White Supremacy and Reclaiming Our Humanity”
  • Deborah Nelson Linck – “Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People”
  • Brian McLaren – “Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned”
  • Jonny Rashid – “Jesus Takes a Side: Embracing the Political Demands of the Gospel”
  • Michelle Reyes – “The Race-Wise Family: Ten Postures to Becoming Households of Healing and Hope”
  • Sarah Griffith Lund – “Blessed Youth: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness with Children and Teens”
  • Lisa K. Swallow – “Yes, You CAN Talk Politics: A workbook for talking across party lines” and “No One Was Listening”
  • Melissa Guthrie – “Colors of Hope: A Devotional Journal from LGBTQ+ Christians”
  • Terry Catasús Jennings and Rosita Stevens-Holsey – “Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist”
  • Robyn Henderson-Espinoza – “Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation”
  • Jim Belcher – “Cold Civil War: Overcoming Polarization, Discovering Unity, and Healing the Nation”
  • Andre Henry – “All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope–and Hard Pills to Swallow–About Fighting for Black Lives”
  • Kerry Connelly – “Wait, Is This Racist? A Guide to Becoming an Anti-racist Church”
  • Monica Guzman – “I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times”
  • Amy Julia Becker – “To Be Made Well: An Invitation to Wholeness, Healing, and Hope”
  • Ashley Abercrombie – “Love is the Resistance: Learn to Disagree, Resolve the Conflicts You’ve Been Avoiding and Create Real Change”
  • Jay Payleitner – “Don’t Take the Bait to Escalate: Conflict Is Inevitable. Being a Jerk Is Optional.”
  • Tom Vozzo – “The Homeboy Way: A Radical Approach to Business and Life”
  • Teesha Hadra and John Hambrick – ” Black and White: Disrupting Racism One Friendship at a Time”
  • Liz Theoharis – “We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign”
  • Brandan Robertson – “Filled to Be Emptied: The Path to Liberation for Privileged People”
  • Caroline Beidler “10 Practical Ways to Make Your Recovery Shine”
  • Lisa Sharon Harper – “Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World–and How to Repair It All”
  • Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez – “A Time To Mourn & A Time To Dance: A Love Story of Grief, Trauma, Healing, & Faith”
  • Kelly Brown Douglas – “Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter”
  • Betty Pries – “The Space Between Us: Conversations about Transforming Conflict”
  • Stacey Chomiak – “Still Stace: My Gay Christian Coming-of-Age Story”
  • Ann Kansfield – “Be the Brave One: Living Your Spiritual Values Out Loud and Other Life Lessons”
  • Victoria Loorz – “Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred”
  • Christopher B. Hays and C. L. Crouch – “God and Guns: The Bible Against American Gun Culture”
  • Daneen Akers – “Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints”
  • Jennie McLaurin – “Designed to Heal: What the Body Shows Us about Healing Wounds, Repairing Relationships, and Restoring Community”
  • Jerry Zehr – “The Peacemaker’s Path: Multifaith Reflections to Deepen Your Spirituality”
  • Jemar Tisby – “How to Fight Racism, Young Reader’s Edition: A Guide to Standing Up for Racial Justice”
  • Andy Wells – “Tried to Be Straight – Options for Gay Christians”
  • David Finnegan-Hosey – “Grace Is a Pre-existing Condition: Faith, Systems, and Mental Healthcare”
  • Tambry Harris – “Awakening the Light: A Survivors to Thrivers Going-Forward Story”
  • Daniel Williams Jr. – “Why Americans Hate Americans”
  • Danté Stewart – “Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle”
  • Sheila Beckford and Michelle Ledder – “Anti-Racism 4REALS: Real Talk with Real Strategies in Real Time for Real Change”
  • Kirsten Powers – “Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts”
  • John Pavlovitz – “If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans”
  • Willard Ashley – “New Rules for Radicals: Techniques and Tactics for Faith-Based Leaders“
  • Adam Taylor – “A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community”
  • Dominique DuBois Gilliard – “Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege”
  • Michael G. Long – “Three Lines in a Circle”
  • Frank Schaeffer – “Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy”
  • Daniel Bowman Jr. – “On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity”
  • Leah Gunning Francis – “Faith After Ferguson: Resilient Leadership in Pursuit of Racial Justice”
  • Kat Armas – “Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength”
  • Elle Dowd – “Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist”
  • Jennifer Butler – “Who Stole My Bible?: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny”
  • Brent Bill – “Hope and Witness in Dangerous Times”
  • Drew Hart – “Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God’s Justice, Love, and Deliverance”
  • Marilyn McEntyre – “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”
  • Duke Kwon – “Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair”
  • Kate Rademacher – “Reclaiming Rest: The Promise of Sabbath, Solitude, and Stillness in a Restless World”
  • Justin R. Phillips – “Know Your Place: Helping White, Southern Evangelicals Cope with the End of The(ir) World”
  • Carolyn Helsel – “Anxious to Talk about It: Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism”
  • Elizabeth Hagan – “Brave Church: Tackling Tough Topics Together”
  • Lamar Hardwick – “Disability and the Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion”
  • Terence Lester – “When We Stand: The Power of Seeking Justice Together”
  • Eric Atcheson – “On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Faith-Based Toolkit for Economic Justice”
  • Michelle Reyes – “Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead To Lasting Connections Across Cultures”
  • Ross Murray – “Made, Known, Loved: Developing LGBTQ-Inclusive Youth Resources”
  • Troy Brand, Nicole Parker, Gena Thomas – The LEAD Anti-Racism Challenge: A 40-Day Journey
  • Tyler Sit – “Staying Awake: The Gospel for Changemakers”
  • Diana Butler Bass – “Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence”
  • Pádraig Ó Tuama – “In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World” and “Borders and Belonging: The Book of Ruth: A story for our times”
  • Justin Hancock – “The Julian Way: A Theology of Fullness for All of God’s People”
  • Mark Schaefer – “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for your Ideas, Business and Life Against All Odds”
  • Yolanda Pierce – “In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit”
  • Emily Joy Allison – “#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing”
  • Steven Charleston – “Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder’s Meditations on Hope and Courage”
  • Bruce Reyes-Chow – “In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World”
  • Laura Mariko Cheifetz – “Race in America: Christians Respond to the Crisis”
  • Crystal Cheatham – “The Deconstructionist Playbook”
  • Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner – “You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape”
  • Mel White – Mel is the author of several important books including “Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay And Christian In America”
  • Sarah Griffith Lund – “Blessed Union: breaking the silence about mental illness and marriage”
  • Lindsey Krinks – “Praying with Our Feet: Pursuing Justice & Healing on the Streets
  • Kerry Connelly – “Good White Racist? Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice”
  • Michael W. Waters – “Something in the Water: A 21st Century Civil Rights Odyssey”
  • Jemar Tisby – “How to Fight Racism”
  • Mako Fujimura – “Art + Faith: A Theology of Making”
  • April Stace – “White Knuckle Love: A Memoir of Holding”
  • Rick Prashaw – “Soar, Adam, Soar”
  • Brian McLaren – “Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It”
  • Barbara Brown Taylor – “Always a Guest: Speaking of Faith Far From Home”
  • Wes Granberg-Michaelson – “Without Oars: Casting Off into a Life of Pilgrimage”
  • Molly LaCroix – “Restoring Relationship: Transforming Fear into Love Through Connection”
  • Susan K. Smith – “With Liberty and Justice for Some: The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America”
  • Milton Brasher-Cunningham – “The Color of Together”
  • Mark Feldmeir – “A House Divided: Engaging the Issues through the Politics of Compassion”
  • Lisa Sharon Harper – “Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World–and How to Repair It All”
  • Otis Moss III – “Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times”
  • Wajahat Ali – “Go Back To Where You Came From: And, Other Helpful Recommendations on How To Become American”
  • Miguel Escobar – “The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today”
  • Mark Feldmeir – “A House Divided: Engaging the Issues through the Politics of Compassion”
  • Duke Kwon – “Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair”
  • Jennifer Garcia Bashaw – “Scapegoats: The Gospel Through the Eyes of Victims”
  • Angela Denker – “Red State Christians: A Journey into White Christian Nationalism and the Wreckage It Leaves Behind”
  • Patty Krawec – “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future”
  • Kerry Connelly – “Good White Racist? Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice”
  • Michael W. Waters – “Something in the Water: A 21st Century Civil Rights Odyssey”
  • Jemar Tisby – “How to Fight Racism”
  • Mako Fujimura – “Art + Faith: A Theology of Making”
  • Susan K. Smith – “With Liberty and Justice for Some: The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America”
  • Paul Miller – “The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism”
  • Amy Kenny – “My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church”
  • Lindsey Krinks – “Praying with Our Feet: Pursuing Justice & Healing on the Streets
  • Idelette McVicker – “Recovering Racists: Dismantling White Supremacy and Reclaiming Our Humanity”
  • Brian McLaren – “Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned”
  • Lisa K. Swallow – “Yes, You CAN Talk Politics: A workbook for talking across party lines” and “No One Was Listening”
  • Monica Guzman – “I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times”
  • Amy Julia Becker – “To Be Made Well: An Invitation to Wholeness, Healing, and Hope”
  • Ashley Abercrombie – “Love is the Resistance: Learn to Disagree, Resolve the Conflicts You’ve Been Avoiding and Create Real Change”
  • Brandan Robertson – “Filled to Be Emptied: The Path to Liberation for Privileged People”
  • Kelly Brown Douglas – “Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter”
  • Betty Pries – “The Space Between Us: Conversations about Transforming Conflict”
  • Stacey Chomiak – “Still Stace: My Gay Christian Coming-of-Age Story”
  • John Pavlovitz – “If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans”
  • Adam Taylor – “A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community”
  • Daniel Bowman Jr. – “On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity”
  • Leah Gunning Francis – “Faith After Ferguson: Resilient Leadership in Pursuit of Racial Justice”
  • Kate Rademacher – “Reclaiming Rest: The Promise of Sabbath, Solitude, and Stillness in a Restless World”
  • Justin R. Phillips – “Know Your Place: Helping White, Southern Evangelicals Cope with the End of The(ir) World”
  • Lamar Hardwick – “Disability and the Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion”
  • Ross Murray – “Made, Known, Loved: Developing LGBTQ-Inclusive Youth Resources”
  • Sheila Beckford and Michelle Ledder – “Anti-Racism 4REALS: Real Talk with Real Strategies in Real Time for Real Change”
  • Justin Hancock – “The Julian Way: A Theology of Fullness for All of God’s People”
  • Steven Charleston – “Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder’s Meditations on Hope and Courage”
  • Bruce Reyes-Chow – “In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World”
  • Laura Mariko Cheifetz – “Race in America: Christians Respond to the Crisis”
  • Sarah Griffith Lund – “Blessed Union: breaking the silence about mental illness and marriage”